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Subject: Re: Another opening book question

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:21:14 07/17/02

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On July 17, 2002 at 02:23:52, Russell Reagan wrote:

>Two things:
>
>1. How are most opening books stored? Are they in human readable move notation,
>or a binary representation?

I would assume binary, for both speed and compactness.


>
>2. How do most programs interact with their book? I've heard of some schemes
>where the book is loaded into the transposition table and it simply works
>seamlessly from that. Is that the standard method?
>
>Russell


No idea.  I have published my approach here before.  I read in a specific
block of data which gives me all the possible book moves (plus others) for
that specific position.



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